Ozzie Guillen did everything he needed to do to sweep the Red Sox. Whether it was right or not, it worked. Yesterday’s game was disappointing for the reason that we ran ourselves out of some potential rallies. The Angels got to Contreras early and that’s where the mistakes began.
Mistake number one came in the fifth inning. Scott Podsednik drew a one out walk and he got gunned down by Molina. Benji Molina is a gold glove catcher, and Podsednik had a horrible second half stealing bases. Yes, we were down by a run, but the Sox not only took a guy off the bases, they created an out they couldn’t afford. It’s the third time Podsednik has been caught stealing in the post season.
Not learning from that mistake, it happened again in the seventh. I had the game on and was only listening so I didn’t see it, but I have no idea why A.J. Pierzynski was running. Joe Crede had hit a homerun earlier in the game. It’s just frustrating when they give up not only baserunners, but outs. Sigh.
The good news is, we go to their pen. Scott Shields three two innings and K-Rod threw one. Hopefully that comes into play tonight. I hate to say it’s a must win game, but this is big. We can’t go down 2-0 and expect to be able to storm back when we don’t have the bats.
October 12th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
RE: 7th inning
I was watching the game, and the first thing that flew out of my mouth when I saw Molina stand up and fire the ball to second was “WHAT THE HELL IS A.J. DOING?!?!?”
Not. Good.